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React Server Components (RSC) isn't about making everything faster. It's about making deliberate choices about where your code executes and what gets sent to the browser. After migrating three production apps to the App Router and RSC, I can tell you it's less "paradigm shift" and more "additional option that sometimes matters a lot."
If you’re still using a 12-column grid system in 2024, you’re working against the browser. CSS Grid isn’t just a new syntax; it’s a layout engine that allows us to build 'content-out' designs rather than 'container-in.' Stop fighting with Flexbox and start leveraging the implicit grid.
I've spent the last two years neck-deep in performance optimization, and I can tell you that Core Web Vitals are both simpler and more complicated than most articles make them sound. The metrics themselves are straightforward. Getting them to pass in production? That's where things get messy.